| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
Hi everyone, I've just been phoned by a software house who've upgraded their VAXstations from VMS V5.2 to VMS V5.3 on the weekend and their application software doesn't work properly anymore. They say that the 75 dpi terminal fonts (which used to include ASCII characters and special graphics character set) now only include ASCII characters. This is rather unfortunate as they'd been using the special graphics character set all through their programs. What do they do now? Any tips would be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mitch
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| 3500.1 | some font encodings changed in DECwindows V2 | GOBBLR::MULHEREN | Kelly Mulheren, Digital Extended Toolkit | Mon Oct 22 1990 10:46 | 13 |
Mitch, When I installed DECwindows V2, I had what is probably a similar problem. I don't remember the particular fonts, though. The response to my QAR was that between DECwindows V1 and V2 the encoding of some fonts was changed. There was some justification in the response but it was over my head since I don't speak font-ese very well :-) I'll bet those special graphics glyphs are still there, just at a different location (index) in the font. Several notes in this notesfile describe various tools that let you examine the glyphs in a font. -Kelly | |||||
| 3500.2 | DECWIN::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Mon Oct 22 1990 13:41 | 7 | |
Re: .0 In DECwindows V2 the special graphics characters moved from positions 1-32 in the ISO8859-1 fonts to positions 33-126 in the DEC-DECtech fonts. This was to make the fonts conform to font standards. -- Bob | |||||